Daniel conboy



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. DANIEL CONBOY, or TORON O, ONTARIO, o NADA.

CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,805, dated June 14, 1887.

Application filed October 18, 1856. Serial No. 216,520. (No modeLi Patented in Canada September 3, 1586, No. 24,871.

To all whom. it quay concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL OoNBoY, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Curtain Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide, for holding the rolled curtain of a buggy-top, a double strap-having a single fastening, which will not easily wear; and it consists, essentially, of two straps, the loose ends of which are connected together by a bar made of metal or some other hard substance, in the center of which bar is formed an eye or hook designed to slip over the button provided for holding the said loose end of the strap, for the purposes hereinafter more particularly described.

Figure 1 is a perspective end view of the buggy-top provided with my improved device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail of the device. Fig. 3 is a detailshowing the kind of double strap now used.

In Figs. 1 and 2, A represents the two leather straps, which I term the double strap. The loose ends of these two straps are connected together by the metal bar B, which has the eye a formed in the center. The metal bar 13 holds the two straps the necessary distance apart to embrace as much of the curtain. as possible, while the eye a provides a catch In Fig. 3 I show the kind of double strap now used, which consists of a bifurcated strap 7 having-a button-hole, b, in its single end. Owing to the form of this bifurcated strap, it is not practically possible to get the double part of the strap sufficiently far apart to embrace as much of the curtain as will be covered by the two straps shown in my device,and which are held together by the metal bar B.

I am aware that aspring cover for a boot of a vehicle has been formed of curved springbars having their'ends secured to longitudinal rods, but make no claim to such construction.

What I claim as my invention is The straps A, connected at one end to the buggy-top, in combination with the bar B, made of metal or other hard substance and connected to the opposite ends of said straps, 

